Author Archives: Deborah Elkins

Where a jury found both Driver D and Driver C jointly and severally liable to an injured passenger from Driver C’s car, and Driver C later settled a separate suit filed by an injured passenger from Driver D’s car, Driver ...

A Fauquier County Circuit will hold a show cause on husband’s petition alleging wife has sold real estate to a third party in violation of the final divorce decree, and the court also has referred this matter to the commonwealth’s ...

A wife who previously owned and managed a dental practice and who helped husband build his dental practice into a clinic with revenues of over $5 million and valued at $1.7 million, but who also engaged in unethical business practices ...

A trial court did not err in denying defendant a change of venue because of pretrial publicity and defendant’s convictions of first-degree murder, robbery and use of a firearm are affirmed by the Court of Appeals. During defendant’s second trial ...

A trial court did not err in denying defendant’s request for a new arson trial, based on his claim that a juror’s hearing impairment prevented defendant from receiving a fair trial, and defendant’s conviction of setting fire to a house ...

Although the fourth-grade girl consistently denied sexual contact with defendant until after he moved out of the home where she lived with others, her detailed testimony of her encounters with defendant and fear that she might “get in trouble” if ...

The Court of Appeals says there is sufficient evidence to convict defendant of involuntary manslaughter in a traffic accident, including testimony from one of the passengers in the car who observed defendant’s recklessness and excessive speed, a store clerk who ...

Police had probable cause to arrest defendant after they seized a handgun found on the seat of the vehicle defendant had walked away from when officers first approached him after having been told by a citizen he thought the man ...

Although there was evidence the victim had threatened defendant with a baseball bat earlier at another location, there nevertheless was not sufficient evidence that defendant, prior to firing the fatal shot at the victim, reasonably feared that the victim would ...

A defendant convicted of aggravated malicious wounding of his former girlfriend and violation of a protective order cannot challenge admission of recorded 911 calls as unduly prejudicial because he failed to raise this issue in the trial court, the Court ...